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Building Serverless Architectures

You're reading from Building Serverless Architectures Unleash the power of AWS Lambdas for your applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129191

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Cagatay Gurturk

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Serverless FREE CHAPTER

2. Infrastructure as a Code

3. Hello Internet

4. Applying Enterprise Patterns

5. Persisting Data

6. Building Supporting Services

7. Searching Data

8. Monitoring, Logging, and Security

9. Lambda Framework

Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation

Starting from this section, we will learn how to use a very important AWS tool, CloudFormation. AWS resources mostly have complicated and countless options, and provisioning them manually using AWS Console is not always a good option because this manual process may cause an issue because of a misconfiguration or forgotten option; also, the provisioning process would not be reproducible. Assume that you have to migrate the whole application to another AWS account or you want to remove and create everything from scratch. Creating BASH scripts with AWS CLI commands might be another option, but it would not solve some of the problems mentioned earlier; for example, deleting the whole application or changing some of the configuration in our stack would need refactoring of the BASH script or finding and removing the resources belonging to your...

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Authors (1)

Gurturk

Gurturk

Cagatay Gurturk is a software engineer, internet enterpreneur, and cloud enthusiast. After finishing his studies at the Istanbul Technical University, he continued his education to get a master's degree in computer engineering at Bahcesehir University. In 2004, in his freshman year at the college, he co-founded Instela, which quickly became one of the most well-known internet platforms in Turkey, with millions of visitors per month. Being the technical co-founder of Instela, he gained experience of running web platforms at scale and was also introduced to the world of cloud computing. After long years as an internet enterpreneur in Istanbul and Barcelona, he continued his career in different companies, where he delivered software running on cloud infrastructures, especially on AWS. He authored some open source projects related to AWS as well. He currently works at eBay as a software development manager, and he is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect.

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